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Darcy Coates QUOTES

Darcy Coates QUOTES

1 " C'mon. We can turn it into a fun game - What's Scarier, The Basement Or The Attic? "

― Darcy Coates ,

2 " What level of personal are we talking about?" she mumbled. "I don't mind discussing my periods in graphic detail, but I'm probably going to stay quiet about the jar of fingernail clippings I carry with me at all times. "

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3 " The massive grey tabby turned his sea-green eyes towards her and projected abject misery in the way only cats are capable of. "

― Darcy Coates , The Haunting of Ashburn House

4 " You may rule the world by day, but the creatures of the night demand their privacy. "

― Darcy Coates , The Haunting of Gillespie House

5 " This is a house that hasn’t seen a new soul in half a century. The walls are saturated with her; the floorboards are worn down from her feet; the very air continues to carry her presence after her death. "

― Darcy Coates , The Haunting of Ashburn House

6 " Mistakes make us human; don’t torture yourself over a choice you made four years ago. If you think you were wrong, make a plan to change what you can. Action is good. Choices are good. But guilt on its own never fixed anyone’s problem. "

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7 " But what does it matter if I forget a story after a month as long as I enjoy it while I’m reading it? "

― Darcy Coates , The Folcroft Ghosts

8 " There are three parts to a person: a body, a spirit, and a soul. When the body dies, the soul goes into whatever is waiting for us after death. But the spirit can sometimes get stuck behind. That’s what a ghost is: a spirit anchored to earth by residual energy. The soul, the part that goes to the afterlife, is our core person—the identity we were born with. The spirit is our emotions, our temperament, our intelligence—the parts of us that are created and changed by our time on earth. So, when a ghost is formed, it’s missing both the soul and the body that it needs to be a full human. It’s like an echo of what it once was. "

― Darcy Coates , The Carrow Haunt

9 " They weren’t all that different from her—teenagers who had found themselves classified as adults by virtue of too many birthdays and who were trying to fumble and bluff their way through the world without anyone realising how thoroughly underqualified they were. "

― Darcy Coates , The Haunting of Ashburn House

10 " Then she looked at her phone and saw, to her horror, she hadn’t been hung up on after all. Her battery had died. "

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11 " She’d said that life had sections, like walking through doors. People had to choose when to walk through them, but no one could see what the next room held until they were in it. Some new rooms were painful. Some were happy. Some seemingly had no purpose. But the fullest, happiest lives were lived by those who walked through many different doors, unafraid of what they would find. "

― Darcy Coates , Hunted

12 " Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’ll die horribly in the void of space. "

― Darcy Coates , Craven Manor

13 " A thousand paper cuts given over a lifetime might be insignificant, but when none of them are allowed to heal, they fester into something awful. "

― Darcy Coates , The Haunting of Leigh Harker

14 " A spectre is an entity that can think—though often primitively—and react to changes to their surroundings. They may move from room to room and usually have some kind of impetus keeping them on earth. They’re the closest to the pop culture concept of ghosts. Imprints, on the other hand, are a small amount of energy left behind at the point of death. They’re not conscious. Most commonly, they replay their death, often at the same time each day or on the anniversary of when they died. "

― Darcy Coates , The Carrow Haunt

15 " Ghosts need energy to stay present, to stay powerful. They eat it like we eat food. Sometimes, they have their own energy; the more impactful or distressing the death, the stronger the energy their passing leaves behind. "

― Darcy Coates , The Carrow Haunt

16 " Not for the first time, Tara wished she could read in the car without becoming sick. "

― Darcy Coates , The Folcroft Ghosts

17 " She blinked, trying to recall the dream, but the effort was like trying to chase water while it soaked into the ground. "

― Darcy Coates , The Haunting of Ashburn House

18 " she’d been bequeathed a house by a relative her mother had claimed didn’t exist. "

― Darcy Coates , The Haunting of Ashburn House

19 " I wish I’d never started, but I cannot stop. Death is the next step. Heaven owes me no mercy, so I will make my own. "

― Darcy Coates , The Carrow Haunt

20 " Do not mistake hardheartedness for strength. To live in this world and to hold on to your humanity, your compassion, your joy—I believe that is strength. And more valuable than being callous enough that death never haunts you. "

― Darcy Coates , Secrets in the Dark (Black Winter, #2)